Exam #2 Flashcards
Study guide (78 cards)
A “chronological record of significant events” and their causes
History
What was the role of Christianity in Salish Communities?
To convert and pacify Native American tribes, including the Salish, through the establishment of missions like St. Mary’s
Who is Father De Smet?
A Roman Catholic priest who built Saint Mary’s Mission
Who are the Black robes?
Catholic Jesuit missionaries
What president ordered the Lewis Clark expedition?
Thomas Jefferson
What were the goals for the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Territory conducting scientific surveys
Initiate convos with local tribes to secure advantage in fur trade
Find a route to the Pacific Ocean (Northern Passage)
Between what tribal nation did Lewis and Clark squirmish with?
Blackfeet
Who made the maps to help Lewis and Clark?
Feather’s Map drawn by Blackfoot Chief
Lewis and Clark described this tribe’s language as a “bur on their tongue.”
Salish
He stated this, “We were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width on which the foot of civilized man had never trodden.”
Merriweather Lewis
Who rumored Sacajewa’s supposed death?
Clerk at Fort Lisa
His death at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, where he and all 212 men under his direct command were killed
Custer
From Cheyanne tribe, also known as Shoot woman. Custer fathered a child with her.
Spring Grass
He wrote, “ But from these immense prairies may arise one great advantage to the United States…”
Zebulon Pike
Discovered alternate passage “Bridger Trail”
John Bridger
Ladies’ man, found an easier trail into the southwestern Montana mining fields, maybe murdered by Thomas Cover.
John Bozeman
Belonged to the Shoshone tribe by birth, wife of Charbonneau, mother of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Sacajawea
Sioux leader is credited with closing the Bozeman Trail and involved in the period called the Bloody Bozeman.
Red Cloud
He stated, “Yet before the ashes of the council fire are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us.”
Red Cloud
a shortcut through Native American lands from the Oregon Trail to the Montana goldfields led to 33 travelers killed
Bloody Bozeman, Red Clouds War
What is Bloody Bozeman?
Red Clouds war on the Bozeman Trail
a 500-mile shortcut from the Oregon Trail in Wyoming to the gold fields in Montana
Bozeman Trail
What forts were along the Bozeman trail?
Fort Phil Kearny, Fort Reno, and Fort C.F. Smith
This is not a fort along the Bozeman Trail.
Fort Manuel Lisa